SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE

As a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in SAN BENITO, Texas, SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE educates 558 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within SAN BENITO CISD.

Within SAN BENITO CISD, which oversees 23 schools and 9,137 students, SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE shows that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Cameron County as a whole is about 89% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.4:1, putting SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.5%; this one delivers 38.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Cameron County shows median household income runs about $52,601, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 21%. SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE is one of 187 public schools in Cameron County (combined enrollment of about 97,392 students).

Nearest neighbor: LA PALOMA EL, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SAN BENITO RIVERSIDE MIDDLE ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 36.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 558 in 2025.

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